[coldfire-gnu-discuss] Code size for "Hello World"

[Mark Mitchell]

Corrin Meyer wrote:
> Indeed, removing the printf() does make it much smaller. It was just
> since I had seen examples using it and building it to run for the exact
> board that I had, I was hoping that it would work for. I suppose
> something must of changed in the interim.
> 
> So, 40k when using printf() doesn't sound out of line?

No, not really.  We'd like to get it down, of course, and we are working 
on that, but printf is never going to be really small.  The 
format-parsing code is necessarily complex; think about things "%.*g"...

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